Difficulty score 22. Kebek inspired me, this late I would have just reverted to the green to get it done, but she is right, it can be done without green.

1:43 am

drwho

To answer the question, why hard? My difficulty score was lower today than for yesterday's medium, but it takes slightly more advanced analysis techniques than yesterday's puzzle.

1:45 am

drwho

The difficulty score today has been generated by a slightly modified algorithm. It should give expert puzzles slightly higher scores and spread out the scores a little more for the hard puzzles. Easy and medium scores may not change much if at all.

1:47 am

mab

not so much as a forcing chain was required - just a modicum of thought. odd

1:47 am

mab

not so much as a forcing chain was required - just a modicum of thought. odd

1:48 am

mab

that hardly bore saying twice

1:49 am

drwho

Just the place for a snark the bellman cried, with a finger entwined in his hair,

1:49 am

drwho

Oops,

1:52 am

drwho

Restart... Just the place for a snark the bellman cried, as he support his crew on the top of the tide, with a finger entwined in his hair,

1:52 am

drwho

Just the place for a snark, I've stated it twice, that alone should encourage the crew,

1:52 am

mab

a slithy tove thou art, good doctor

1:53 am

drwho

Just the place for a snark, I've uttered it thrice, what I tell you three times is true.

1:54 am

drwho

Another Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson fan I see.

1:55 am

drwho

A.K.A Lewis Carrol

1:56 am

mab

however, i've committed far less to memory - i am impressed

1:56 am

mab

however, i've committed far less to memory - i am impressed

1:57 am

mab

hell

1:58 am

mab

from now on thrice shall my posts be

1:58 am

mab

from now on thrice shall my posts be

1:58 am

mab

or not. no.

1:59 am

drwho

Carrol comes up with some great lines, especially in the Hunting of the Snark. Even in the preface he makes light of those who accused him of writing nonesense.

2:01 am

mab

a very curious fellow, and accused of more than nonsense at times

2:02 am

drwho

Yes, probably his most significant book academically was Symbolic Logic, which laid the foundation for computer programming languages.

2:03 am

mab

i had no idea. how very interesting. very.

2:04 am

drwho

Naturally, Symbolic Logic is not as widely read as his children's books.

2:05 am

drwho

I don't think it is published under his pseudonym of Lewis Carrol, but under his real name.

2:07 am

mab

i must look into it. it seems not unlikely for him to have written such a work given his turn of mind.

2:07 am

drwho

His day job was professor of Mathematics at Oxford.

2:07 am

drwho

Or maybe it was Cambridge?

2:10 am

mab

i do not know and i do not know mathematics. oddly enough i do grasp his play with language and take to his metaphors readily. hmm...

2:13 am

drwho

Carrol had a way of taking logic to its absurd extremes that delights "children" of all ages.

2:16 am

drwho

It's late, I should be tired so I better go to bed. Good night all.

2:16 am

mab

sleep well drwho

2:56 am

mikehell

well that was easy...

2:57 am

mab

wasn't it? maybe we are all just becoming so brilliant.

2:57 am

mab

nah

2:58 am

mab

not i anyway

4:06 am

rycaut

very easy - no greens, no checkpoints, done in a few minutes - rather too easy for a hard I think

5:06 am

yul

hello

5:19 am

yul

extra easy hard

7:31 am

brittlefish.com

in

7:46 am

brittlefish.com

out

7:48 am

breb34

hello

8:29 am

breb34

not very haed

10:00 am

spellacked

well, when I can drop all the 1s and 2s in without thinking, this can't be that hard. The threes are another story... let's see about the rest of the digits

10:01 am

hurshy

yeah, what's hard about this? i had to restart cause i screwed up, and i only ever screw up on easy ones, cause i'm going too fast.

10:04 am

hurshy

mart thing
you make my heart sing
you make everything.... mewy
mart thing

mart thing, i think i luuuuuv you
but i wanna know for sure
so come on over here and MEW at me

*air guitar*

10:05 am

hurshy

<--- (this is marty, if that was unclear)

11:30 am

UnikeTheHunter

Now I'm stuck with about 70 percent of the cells filled.

11:46 am

UnikeTheHunter

Well, I finally had to set a checkpoint and take a guess. I did that twice, one poor guess, one good guess. After that is was easily determined.

12:34 pm

shoupart

yeah, that wasn't too bad

12:47 pm

Leech

uff.. it's taking me so much time

1:27 pm

Andy

Not too bad today...

1:33 pm

Marzipan

Not hard at all, but was fun anyway.

1:37 pm

mamabear

Is the sight slow for anyone else?

1:37 pm

bunnyvicious

Not me :)

1:42 pm

Dismas

WASNT TOO BAD ONCE I FINALLY READ THE HELP AND FIGURED OUT HOW TO DO THE GREENS

1:42 pm

Dismas

ACK! sorry for caps

2:08 pm

Cherry-Baby

hellp

2:08 pm

Cherry-Baby

i meant hello

2:12 pm

torgone

Hello ..

2:13 pm

Cherry-Baby

im new

2:13 pm

torgone

Welcome to the madness ..

2:14 pm

Cherry-Baby

thanks...make me nervous...lol

2:15 pm

torgone

Don't be nervous - just have fun ..

2:16 pm

Cherry-Baby

well, i should get back to work...thanks again for the welcome...i was just kidding about the whole nervous thing...

2:17 pm

torgone

I knew that ... cya

2:27 pm

Zugzug7

It says Hard but the 1's were pretty easy. Fell right into place. The rest must be a nightmare.

2:28 pm

Zugzug7

I'm on a roll. The 2's were simple too.

2:38 pm

helenkeller

go

2:44 pm

Zugzug7

done. not too hard at all.

2:45 pm

josephholsten

bah

2:49 pm

Nasher

no guessing req.. just some tricky 6's to sus out

2:55 pm

helenkeller

bbl

3:23 pm

torgone

Everyone's saying this is easy, but I'm stuck . .Waahhh! what am I not seeing???

3:25 pm

skizzybiz

hard to say. i'm making slow but steady progress

3:42 pm

Grendel

whoa, checkpoints enabled for all users?

3:49 pm

Hyde

huhquijibo

4:00 pm

fit1

looks like checkpoint is enabled. I just tried it.

4:05 pm

Tammy

they're having a 14 day free trial right now for everyone because people haven't been getting theirs when they joined :)